I was surprised to discover these little packets of Xanthan Gum at Walmart, in the aisle with flour and breading mixes. It set me back 48 cents. It's about 1 tablespoon of powder.
http://www.hodgsonmillstore.com/en/gluten-free/gluten-free-xanthan-gum-71518-02175-021_group
Bob
Just for information. I bought a bottle of glue for repairing cigars.
Contains water and ethyl cellulose.
Haven't tried it yet. It is rather thick.
Jan.
Good info in this thread. As a newbie and expecting my first delivery of tobacco from WLT tomorrow I did a search on cigar glue to find what to use and found this thread I think a trip to Wallmart will be on the todo list tomorrow.
I was wondering about the leaf glue for a few days and was going to order some from the seller on ebay but will try the xanthan gum first.
Again this forum has a wealth of info on it to help everyone. Thanks for the info everyone.
I use guar-gum for my cigars and usually put water in a cap of bottled water, and drop little amounts of the powder using a toothpick. A second toothpick is used for quick stirring.
If you use little gum, you end up with a "honey" texture.
You can use more and have a "gum" result.
Silly question here..but is gum arabic same as guar gum?
I use it as well, when I bother to use any glue. The issue with fruit pectin is that some folks can easily taste its presence. Some folks (me) don't....dry powdered fruit pectin...no taste...
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